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Disaster Strikes Pennsylvania: A Very Special AT&T Doomsday Simulation

Today and tomorrow, AT&T will simulate a full-scale network disaster outside of Philly.READ»

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Macro Trends: America’s New Chapter

The stock market has rallied since March 2009 on cheap money and undervaluation; the former is unsustainable and the latter no longer the case.READ»

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Hitachi's Research Elevator: 40MPH Straight Up

Buildings get taller, and people get used to driving in fast cars and airplanes with new technology--but everyone forgets about elevators. Except Hitachi, which is soon to open an elevator research facility that's the tallest ever.READ»

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Most Innovative Companies - Architecture

From MVRDV to Shigeru Ban, our picks for the top companies in architecture.READ»

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Most Innovative Companies - All Stars

These companies, featured on our 2008 and 2009 honor rolls, fought a dour economy with renewed creativity and bold initiatives. (Alas, not all fared ...READ»

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Google Buzz: "Are You at Work? How About a $.99 Big Mac From McDonald's, Three Blocks Away?"

You're waking up to an Internet a-Buzz with talk about Google's new social sharing experiment. Opinions are mixed, but mainly concern the current version of Buzz. So here's our thought experiment about its future. It's scary.Google's ...READ»

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Scam artists, con artists, and the disaster in Haiti

When tragedy befalls us there are people who help and people who take advantage.READ»

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Michael Arad Offers Sneak Peek at 9/11 Memorial Fountains

The technology for the fountains designed by Michael Arad which will be in the footprint of the World Trade Center towers is currently being tested in Brooklyn's Navy Yard.READ»

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Spanish Starchitect Calatrava Tackles Designing Sets for NYC Ballet

Santiago Calatrava has often been called the most lyrical of the current crop of starchitects. Today, the New York City Ballet announced that it will give the Spaniard a chance to apply his architectural and engineering skills to ...READ»

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Today, Burj Khalifa Is the Tallest Structure in the World (Or Is It?)

The Oz-like Burj Khalifa in Dubai officially opened today, succeeding Taipei 101 as the world's tallest building. There is no disputing its preposterous height: At 169 stories, or 2,717 feet, the $1.5 billion tower on the edge of ...READ»

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Burj Dubai: Skyscraper and Storm Destroyer?

The Burj Dubai is many things: World's tallest building, financial folly, symbol of mankind's technological triumph, and now, possibly, a mechanism for defusing tropical storms. How on Earth is that possible? It's the chimney ...READ»

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CityCenter's Architect "Dream Team" Builds the Next Vegas

The architects behind Las Vegas' CityCenter gathered after today's press conference to answer some questions about the legendary project.READ»

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Stephan Hittmann - Visit the 911fund.org

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What It’s Like to Chill Out With : Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic and Radovan Karadzic

Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.READ»

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The Post-Big Era: Will Small-Scale Ingenuity Replace Large-Scale Architecture?

The extra-large architectural complex--art museums, libraries, office complexes--built so prolifically over the past decade are commonly described as expressions of civic pride. They might just as easily be called grandiose ...READ»

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Social Media as Time Transporter

Thirty-one years ago, the housemate with whom I’d found an apartment moved out, and I invited a poet friend of mine to take his place. We shared that apartment for several months, until he, too, moved on, and another friend moved ...READ»

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Soundscape of Immigrant Voices Shapes Exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

"Voices of Liberty" is a soundscape of voices of immigrants -- among them Daniel Libeskind, Henry Kissinger, Holocaust survivors, Soviet refuseniks, Rwandans fleeing genocide -- telling stories about arriving in America for the first time. Neil Diamond would approve.READ»

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Legends of the Fall: Patti Smith, Marc Jacobs, and David Rockwell Headline Pratt Gala

"Godmother of Punk" Patti Smith didn't go to Pratt. She didn't have the money and, she says, she was "too erratic a student" to get past the admissions office. That didn't stop her, however, from enthusiastically accepting an award ...READ»

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NYC Through an Alternate Lens: See What the Big Apple Could Have Been

A new iPhone app lets you browse futuristic design proposals for New York, from 1870 to today, as you wander around town.READ»

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Toyota "Terrorizes" Consumers With Creepy E-mail Campaign, Faces Lawsuit

If you thought someone was stalking you, wouldn't you want to buy a Toyota Matrix? A bizarre "terror marketing campaign" for the vehicle, produced by Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles and creative studio Mekanism, harassed consumers ...READ»

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A Year-Long 50th Birthday Party for Los Angeles' Mid-Century Buildings

The L.A. Conservancy celebrates a half-century of modern architecture with a series of events, tours, and a website devoted to preservation and awareness.READ»

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The WTC Memorial: Rebranded

A new logo strips away the mess that symbolizes the chaos of the WTC site.READ»

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At Last, 9/11 World Trade Center Museum Unveiled

The underground museum will wind through the foundations of the original WTC.READ»

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Instant Landmark: New Amsterdam Pavilion

To mark the 400th anniversary of the Dutch arrival, New York unveils a gift from the Netherlands--a spiral-shaped visitor's center where 70,000 daily commuters pass.READ»

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Introducing Guest Blogger Dan Harden: In a Recession, Creativity Starts with How You Run Your Business

About a year ago, Dan Harden, the president and chief designer of Whipsaw, the Silicon Valley industrial design and product development firm, stopped by the Fast Company offices bearing an armload of products that were as eclectic as they were fascinating.READ»